Best Cookbooks of 2016

... and the winner is Dorie's Cookies by Dorie
Greenspan - with a commanding lead.

This is our 8th year of compiling the Best of the Best. We
search the globe to come up with the definitive list of the best
books on food and drink of the year. Not just one reviewer's
opinion but an amalgamation of every list we could find.

In this year's Best of the Best list we combined more than
300 Best Cookbooks of 2016 lists from TV, Radio, Newspapers,
Magazines, Websites, Blogs and Booksellers across the world (there
are links to all of them below).

1. Dorie's Cookies by Dorie Greenspan is a baker's magical workshop encased in 500 pages with 170 unique and classic cookie recipes. The royal purple cover, pages that are speckled with cookie illustrations and full-page photographs with a retro feel, all make this book a must have for cookie bakers.

=4. Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain is the celebrity chef's first cookbook in over a decade. This book shares a collection of recipes that encompass forty years of Bourdain's cooking and traveling. These are personal favorites of the chef and are surprisingly approachable by the home cook.

=4. Cooking for Jeffrey by Ina Garten is her most personal cookbook yet and is filled with the recipes Jeffrey, her husband, and their friends request most often as well as charming stories from the couple's many years together. Ina's recipes always work and are typical of what everyday cooks make and enjoy.

6. Simple by Diana Henry, who has the ability to turn the ordinary into extraordinary, is a stellar collection of dishes that you can create with no fuss, but which will dazzle your guests with flavor. Diana takes ingredients we are most likely to find in pantries - or that we are able to pick up on the way home from work - and provides recipes that will be your go-tos for life.

8. Everything I Want to Eat: Sqirl and the New California Cooking by Jessica Koslow brings us a taste of California cooking renaissance in 100 recipes utilizing fresh ingredients. This book focuses on composed dishes that are easily accomplished at home with a fun layout and beautiful photographs of the food, people, and all that make up the farming landscape that keep our kitchens stocked and our bellies full, this book is enchanting.

9. The Red Rooster Cookbook by Marcus Samuelsson shares essays and interviews along with archival and contemporary photos that chronicle all that is Harlem. All these factors are reason enough to covet this book, but then we have the recipes that will have you excited to be in the kitchen.

10. Molly on the Range by Molly Yeh is packed with stories, illustrations and photographs along with recipes from the popular blogger that gives us a peek at her unlikely life on a farm. Unique recipes and fun narrative makes this a book to be devoured from cover to cover.